Collections of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022

Manami Hayasaki 1980 -

Born in 1980 in Osaka.
Graduated from Japanese painting course at Kyoto City University of Arts, and Chelsea College of Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Hayasaki is interested in the relation between humans and the history of natural science, and ecosystems, examining human beings from the perspective of duality, such as "life and death", "good and evil" and "beauty and ugliness", and has been cutting out various motifs found mainly in ecosystems using the technique of paper cutting. She regards the paper objects used in the art installation as a metaphor for duality. Paper cutouts are primarily flat, however they cast a shadow when arranged in space, and become difficult to define whether they are 2D or 3D.

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Leave a Sigh, For the Invisible Grove
2021
1340 x 982 x 52 mm
cut-card

One - starting-
2021
930 x 610 x 60 mm
cut-card

[Exhibited through 2022/9/4] Today is the Day
2022
610 x 450 x 60 mm
cut-card, synthetic lacquer, gold leaf

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After studying Japanese style Painting at Kyoto City University of Arts, she graduated from University of the Arts London, Chelsea Collage of Art and Design (Fine Art) in 2007. She is mainly making Paper-cutting installation. Hayasaki is interested in the relationship between natural history and human beings, and trying to investigate on the human’s natural habit, such as the desire for knowledge, and egoism, with a view of duality. She thinks that the paper objects used as a metaphor of the "Duality" are difficult to define both 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional. ‘Duality’ means that the two words seem to be in opposite positions, however the boundaries are vague and cannot be separated like ‘life and death’, ‘good and evil’.